overcast-stakeout

overcast-stakeout is a skill for Claude Code from kdr/overcast. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for continuously watching public sources for new photos, videos, or other media about a chosen target. It adds possible matches to a review queue and keeps a live monitoring display.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ongoing monitoring of a person, vehicle plate, phrase, social-media account, or video channel, and for reviewing newly detected media over time.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly check many public sources by hand. Possible matches remain suggestions until someone reviews them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the overcast plugin — 35 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for ongoing monitoring of a person, vehicle plate, phrase, social-media…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kdr/overcast/overcast-stakeout
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-stakeout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdr/overcast

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install overcast, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,127 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.01127
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00113

Measured 7d ago against content hash 15ee4215b004, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overcast-stakeout scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/overcast-stakeout/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

overcast-stakeout

Use this skill when the task is to sit on a target and catch new media as it is published (a "stakeout"), rather than a one-shot recon pass. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags. Only start a continuous loop when the user asks for ongoing monitoring.

Workflow

  1. Set the standing scope. As new media arrives, matches auto-suggest leads — score/text triggers (a face ≥75 match, an image RANSAC hit, similar ≥85, cluster ≥70, or a text target the watch/listen text mentions) emit status:"suggested" findings that queue for triage (out of ask/brief until reviewed). --findings suggest is the default; pair it with --auto-sense watch:
overcast doctor --sources --json
overcast case init --json
overcast case setup --name stakeout --target "<name / plate / phrase>" --source "x:@handle,youtube:@channel" --auto-sense watch --findings suggest --yes --json
  1. Sanity pass — one diff cycle, scheduler-friendly, to confirm sources resolve before you leave a loop running:
overcast monitor --once --pipe watch --json
  1. Stand the watch up. Run the continuous loop under tmux; --alert mirrors new records to a sink and --brief summarizes each batch:
overcast monitor --every 15m --limit 5 --pipe watch --alert ./stakeout.jsonl --brief --json
  1. Work the triage queue as leads accrue — finding list --state triage shows the suggested leads awaiting review; accept promotes a lead to evidence (it enters ask/brief), dismiss blocks it (never re-suggested for that match, but still auditable):
overcast finding list --state triage --json
overcast finding accept <finding-id> --json
overcast finding dismiss <finding-id> --json
  1. Keep the control-room wall up as the visual surface — every case video muted and looping at its best evidence moment, freshest first, auto-restarting:
overcast wall --refresh 60 --theme csi --json
overcast wall --source x --since 24h --theme csi --json    # scope to one feed / window
overcast brief --export ./stakeout.html --json             # periodic cited report

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 99 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 15ee4215b004

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overcast-stakeout is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdr/overcast (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,127 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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